Opinion: A Catholic Witch-hunt

Editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz on a priest who was wrongly imprisoned for sexually molesting young boys. Photos: Getty Images

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... we go ... true crime and heinous criminals ... from the Cleveland kidnappings to the charity artists murder trial ... but sometimes this report errors we find cases where ... there are wrongly accused in the criminal justice system took a wrong turn ... editoral board member Dorothy Rabinowitz is staying with me now to talk about ... one such case ... Dorothy who is father ... Gordon MacRae ... me ... Mary is one in a long line of people ... falsely accused for a crime that has now become ... sacrosanct in the sense that ... you're not allowed to believe that the accusation is false that's six abuse of children is easy Catholic priest Catholic priest and in ... New Hampshire ... and in the ... early nineties when a high of all the accusations against priests ... when the dioceses ... like the one and then just lived only know sums to anyone who can come and claim a clumps thinks and I was accused ... of ... fun credit was confused and ... by more than one because it had detected then ... whom do ... these cases ... well most of the term sex abuse cases ... in the country over the past thirty five years have been built ... by ... investigators for prosecutors ... making essentially a Korea's ... on this ... Ryan ... was the ... prosecution with enormous selection sympathy ... minivan ... but a great with ... my dance and on ... he has no interest in serving the beginning of his nineteen new year ... on the most extraordinarily absurd chart isn't or see you covered many of these kinds of cases of three year career and taken from simple Martha Coakley in ... Massachusetts and ... rape cases BMO ... correct but is this case special and different in in in terms of the level of the ... ugly just claim to remain to be complete the coaching of witnesses ... in the eighties child abuse prosecutions in all plus the insurance companies paid out money ... but ... in this priest abuse case that has become ... big business for simple return is ... a good business people of gotten ... quite rich ... because of the amount of money ... that the diocese and he was bankrupted so many diocese across the country ... because the claims are so very great ... still it's well known in certain communities that look if you just go said of the protests to know that ... you can get a civil attorney and to get the money ... fund ... movingly ... in fact they made up ... cases I remember the moment that ... Father McRae was approached by the ... already impressive ... by the emissary ... from the ... same ... book ... photo which is playing down the names of these three boys who lose out ... that the claims against him ... and present ... from then on I've never even knew then ... it was the first time he'd been struck by people ... adding to it ... they still got money ... I never met them I never knew them here tonight you're going to chronicle this case of Wall Street John ... Isom our own very much looking for it in to reading more of those deatails ... but maybe I'll skip ... the right to to get into the end here I he did his father McCrea appealing or is the stated New Hampshire ... going to examine all these facts you're laying out liao then well we hope ... we hope that the court which now has his keeping score this plea in front of it ... will grant it ... up a new trial and thinking that conviction ... we don't know but what ever is the outcome ... in about sixty days issued the decision ... we don't know the outcome ... but we do know that their ... case will go on ... so far in color ... you could have ... a person ... innocent ... nineteen you think you've read the paper everyday ... people who spend inordinate amounts of time in prison ... because of these crimes ... it's a good aspect of these crimes ... you can not ... say ... in accusations ... against a priest ... his faults ... this remarkable ... you'll hear ... how did you question this ... how dare you question is the case of Father McCrea fat editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz thank you for telling us about it we will follows closely on Opinion Journal ...